Outside the Beltway

Contrary to what Senator McCain, seeking realism in military policy does not make one an isolationist.

The debate format was the biggest loser last night, but there were a few memorable moments in New Hampshire.

It was a good day in Court for opponents of the Affordable Care Act.

Another appellate panel heard arguments on the Constitutionality of the health care reform law this week.

To the shock of no one, Mitt Romney announced his bid for the GOP presidential nomination today.

Arguments for the Ryan Plan that characterize it as being “against bureaucracy” are apparently oblivious to the fact that private health insurance is full of bureaucracy.

The 4th Circuit has asked for supplemental briefs on an issue that could put a quick end to the lawsuits against the Affordable Care Act.

Even before the individual mandate kicks in, the ACA has added hundreds of thousands of people to health insurance rolls.

With co-frontrunner Mike Huckabee out, Mitt Romney looks stronger than ever.

Newt Gingrich says the coming presidential election will be the most important since the Civil War.

Mitt Romney began his effort to confront what is likely to be his biggest political liability in the 2012 campaign.

How much of public opinion is about tribal political identification and how much is about the actual policies themselves?

Obama’s main politics are hardly as leftist as many make them out to be. Indeed, much of them could have fit well in the the GOP of 1990s and early 2000s.

The challenges to the Affordable Care Act will remain in the Courts of Appeals for now, but they’re still on a pretty fast track.

What, if anything, does the budget deal mean for the future?

Given the schedule they’re on in the Courts of Appeals, it is likely that the Supreme Court will rule on one or more of the lawsuits challenging the Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act just before the start of the 2012 campaign.

The Federal Government has filed its response to Virginia’s request for an expedited review of Virginia v. Sebelius, and they’ve got an compelling argument against rushing things.

All of the plausible Republican contenders for 2012 have significant downsides.

Mitt Romney starts his 2012 run as the frontrunner for the Republican nomination. But, in reinventing himself yet again, the “authenticity” issue that troubled many of us in 2008 looms again.

Judge Roger Vinson stayed his own ruling in the Florida ObamaCare lawsuit today and acted to speed up the appellate process, but not by much.

Democrats won’t say if they consider Mitt Romney a threat, but they’re sure acting like they do.

Judge Gladys Kessler upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate, but she did so by essentially ruling that the Interstate Commerce Clause means whatever Congress wants it to mean.

The Affordable Care Act has been ruled Constitutional in Holder v. Mead.

Is Jon Stewart a useful idiot?

Republicans won the right to govern Wisconsin. What does that mean for Democrats?

Neither side is covering themselves in glory in the battle over the Badger State budget.

Donald Trump sounds like a man running for president.

Four Senators who just happen to be up for re-election next year are silently looking for alternatives to the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate.

Predicting (after a fashion) what the SCOTUS will do with the PPACA and a return to the Commerce Clause and the activity/inactivity disucssion.

A 2005 concurring opinion from Antonin Scalia may be the piece of legal reasoning that ultimately saves the Affordable Care Act in the Courts.

A second Federal District Court judge has declared the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional.

The Republican Study Committee has come up with some significant budget cuts.

Time for midterms.